Songs About Dictators

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Were any good ones left off?

― mayhaps (mayhaps), Saturday, 6 January 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://photos.lacoccinelle.net/17/86/121786.jpg

― and what (ooo), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

ok, it's not really rock, but: Springtime For Hitler (from The Producers)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/a6/230px-Producer_spngtim_4.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

SUCK ON THIS, SQUAREHEAD-HEAD-HEAD-HEAD-HEAD
I hear you got a six inch guarantee of unilateral security
Well me and Stalin, we just signed a mutual non-aggression pact...

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

nice one, StanM.

Also "Holiday In Cambodia".

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

I would imagine Death In June has a couple hundred songs about totalitarianism...

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, glad I don't know...

also Current 93's "Hitler As Kalki".

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

Unnatural Axe - They Saved Hitler's Brain
Angry Samoans - They Saved Hitler's Cock
Black Randy & the Metrosquad - Idi Amin

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

Fatima Mansions - "Blues For Ceaucesceu" (sp?)

― hank (hank s), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Maggie - The Exploited

:-)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

It's more about a dictator's girlfriend, but how about "Eva Braun" by A Frames?

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Minutemen - If Reagan Played Disco

Reagan wasn't a 'dictator' per se, but some would argue...

― MacDara Conroy (MacDara), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dementlieu.com/~obik/bigblack/discog/images/ilduce1.jpg

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

royal trux - pol pot pie

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

They already have Il Duce. (see link at the top of this thread)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

(oh, and Blues For Ceauşescu as well, nevermind)

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

"old man is back again" by scott walker, obviously.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

mr t experience - even hitler had a girlfriend

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

"stalin wasn't stallin'" golden gate jubilee quartet
(a pro-joe wwii gospel tune, also recorded by robert wyatt)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - "Der Mussolini"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

fela and afrika 70 - coffin for head of state

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

david bowie - big brother

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

"For Adolf's Only" (aka "Adolf Was A Piss Artist") - The Valves
(nice to see my old mates the K9's in there 'though!)

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/gaddafi/

― jimn (jimnaseum), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

"Joe Stalin's Cadillac" - Camper Van Beethoven

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

>"stalin wasn't stallin'" golden gate jubilee quartet
>(a pro-joe wwii gospel tune, also recorded by robert wyatt)

The Wyatt version's on there.

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Pictures of Adolf again" by Bill Fay

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

adolf hitler - knugen faller
(screechy saxpunk - like love is all without the fun - on whatshisface from refused's record label. here)

― (jg) ((jg)), Sunday, 7 January 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Dictators Are Cool" by A.C.

POOL POT KILLED A MILLION OF HIS PEOPLE
IDI AMIN ATE THAT MANY FOR DINNER
PAPA DOC, HIS SON WAS EVEN COOLER
ROSS THE BOSS WAS IN MANOWAR

DICTATORS ARE COOL
DICTATORS ARE COOL

MUSSOLINI GOT PISSED ON BY HIS PEOPLE
HITLER HAD A CHARLIE CHAPLIN MUSTACHE
DICK MANITOBA GRABBED MY GIRLFRIENDS TITS
MARK MENDOZA WAS IN A TWISTED SISTER

DICTATORS ARE COOL
DICTATORS ARE COOL

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

don't remember the names of the particular performers, let alaone the titles of the songs, but in the past couple of years i've happened to see and hear (the evil of) at least two cheery russian pop songs about vladimir outfreakovich putin.
v.v.freaksome they sounded indeed :(

― tiit (tiit), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Cortinas, "Fascist Dictator" (1977)

― xero (xero), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

It's not so much about him as much as it says his name but:

Cabaret Voltaire = Do The Mussolini

― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

Victory Garden by the Red Krayola is about Hitler, I think.

― Jawbone (Jawbone), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

Iannis Xenakis' "Persepolis" was actually commissioned by the Shah of Iran. Beat that, Front 242.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

"old man is back again" by scott walker, obviously.

and don't forget 'clara'.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

the pere ubu song 'chinese radiation' is kind of about mao, i think.

― David Fernig (dave f), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

If you regard Napoleon as a dictator:

Waterloo - ABBA
Poor Boney - Norma Waterson

― David V (grammy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Butthole Surfers, The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave
Embryo, Espagna Si, Franco No
Inner Circle, General Amin
Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Der Fuehrer's Face
Nico, Julius Caesar
The Residents, Hitler Was a Vegetarian
Robert Wyatt, Chairman Mao
The Rivingtons, Papa (Doc) Oom Mao Mao

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Blowfly "International Pricks"

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

"Do The Uganda"!

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

Antony and the Johnstons "Hitler in My Heart"

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

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